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'I Shot the President's Verse: Selected Literary Journalism' presents controversial essays and reviews by the poet, critic, and author, Dr Kevin Kiely. His critical writings on the 'poetry' of President Michael D Higgins and Seamus Heaney led to public outrage and discussion. Kiely's criticism has met with controversy since the 1970s concerning poetry, biography, literary criticism, memoir, fiction, psychology, mysticism, history and politics.These highly accessible writings contrast contemporary Irish Literature (1970s-2020s) which 'fell' below the achievement of the pantheon that includes Shaw, Wilde, Synge, Yeats, Gregory, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Kavanagh, Stuart, Ó'Faolain, O'Connor and Flann O'Brien. The 'demigods' are raised into clear perspective above the obfuscation of academic critics, and alongside contemporary pratfalls involving Arts-Council-promoted State Sponsored Literature, and not least, Dublin media in cahoots with London publishers to dictate 'Irish identity' and Irish history.Within free guiding principles beyond institutional control or censorship, Kiely explores our great traditions that evolved towards American-European-Irish Modernism; the Gaelic poets of genius through the centuries, and not least the Hiberno-Irish tradition from Swift to the present times. Kevin Kiely PhD., UCD --"The Patronage of Poetry in the Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University"; MPhil., Trinity College (Dublin); W. J. Fulbright Scholar in Poetry Washington (DC); Hon. Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa.www.KevinKiely.net kevin kiely (poet) wiki 'Kevin Kiely says that the President's latest book ['New & Selected Poems'] is "lame, stale and stilted", that it is "bland, imprecise and ultimately incomprehensible" and that it's so bad that Michael D Higgins "can be accused of crimes against literature."'John Spain Literary Editor, 'The Irish Independent' 'He is correct and, given Heaney's stature, courageous to tilt at Heaney's legacy. [...] Indeed, Kevin Kiely has unmasked a 'fraud' that as he predicted years ago has burgeoned into an institutional conspiracy to honour the mediocre and the sham. We would do well to finally heed Dr Kiely's alarm.'Carlo Parcelli, 'Village Magazine' 'As a poet, I work with the imperative of my inner critic which extends to evaluating the writing of others, in this case President Higgins's verse. Aesthetically and ethically, I could not evaluate the President's verse other than what is written in my published review. Now, I'm burdened to extrapolate in further articles on his jotter-verse.' 'Kevin Kiely Interview' on "Today with Pat Kenny" RTÉ Radio

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I Shot the President's Verse: Selected Literary Journalism by Kevin Kiely is 692 pages long, and a total of 174,384 words.

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